Botswana looks to keep their calm against the Super Falcons in WAFCON clash

The Mares will look to redeem themselves coming on the back of a 1-0 defeat to Algeria in their tournament opener at Pere Jeago.

Speaking to SABC Sport, Malete says they look to express themselves more against Nigeria to make sure that they don’t repeat the same mistakes from the previous match.

"We have to be calm and not desperate when we face Nigeria. We have to be able to express ourselves in terms of things that we do well. Look at Nigeria as well and see what they do well and see what they struggle with and do our best to use that to our advantage,” Malete.

“But what I'm happy about is the positivity within the camp, the spirit within the camp, the unity within the camp. It's the environment for me that will ensure that we proceed to the next round. 

“We have a very positive group, they've been very impressive since we started preparations and we are looking forward to our next match and we'll do everything to make sure that we qualify to the next round."

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Malete admits that his charges failed to impose themselves in their WAFCON opener against Algeria on Sunday, and believes it will be key to uphold a different mindset in their next match at Larbi Zaouli stadium.

"Defeat to Algeria, I have to say we paid a heavy price for not starting the game well. Defensively and more especially in other moments we should have imposed ourselves, we didn't,” he added.

“Defensively we have too many gaps in between the blocks and because of those gaps we allowed Algeria to isolate our fullbacks, so their wingers 6 and 11, they gave them width and they had time and space to receive and challenge our fullbacks who didn't have cover.

“And even cut inside for combination play because of the gaps we had in between our blocks but we were not proactive enough to deal with those situations and we only adjusted half time and in the second half we were a better team."